What you write in this sentence and how you post are completely opposites, though.
Anyone reading your posts in this thread will notice how important it is to you for the protagonist on this Assassin's Creed set in feudal Japan to be black.
Why?
Lol, define "
being in the inner circle". Oda Nobunaga brought him around to carry his stuff. There's nothing in historical documents that even suggest he was part of any kind of decision making or was given any responsibility.
There are only two written testimonies of Yasuke: a couple of paragraphs the
chronicles of Luis Fróis in Portuguese (which is still pretty much readable nowadays, so I did) and a couple pages in
the chronicles of Oda Nobunaga (written 16 years after he died and Yasuke was sent away never to be heard of again).
Both accounts only describe Yasuke (probably japanization of the Portuguese name Isaque / Isaac) as being black, big and strong, doing some tricks, Nobunaga talking to him and them bringing him to parade around town like a pet to show off to the populace and his visitors. At some point he was given a small house and a short sword like all retainers. When Nobunaga committed seppukku his son deemed Yasuke unfit for that honor because he was "a beast" so they sent him to the nearest Jesuit temple. There's nothing more of relevance about the character.
Everything historical about Yasuke amounts to little more than a page of text. The
inner circle and the samurai parts were made up by Thomas Lockley, who wrote a fictional book out of that page.
And Lockley's book isn't even that original. Most of what Lockley wrote about Yasuke is pretty much a copy of
what James Clavell wrote for his own character John Blackthorne.
In good reality, people are being victims of a disinformation campaign that consists of turning a black man that existed into
a fictional character that was copied from
another fictional character which is based on a
white guy that existed.
All this out of White Guilt.
that just went full circle.
